UK: Firms lose business due to shortage of bilingual workers

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


Onrec.com



Firms lose business due to shortage of bilingual workers



One quarter of companies have lost out on business because staff can't
speak a foreign language
28% of employers would be willing to pay staff more if they had
language skills 25% of medium sized companies would benefit from more
foreign language speakers One quarter of UK companies (26%) have lost
out on business because their staff cannot speak a foreign language,
according to research released today by publisher of the Teach
Yourself Business Languages Series.

The independent research conducted by Gfk NOP reveals that
insufficient language skills in the workplace has meant that 17% of
companies have not been able to pitch for business globally. The
survey of over 500 UK companies also found that 10% of companies
incurred costs having documents translated.



Full story:

http://www.onrec.com/newsstories/20173.asp



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